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- renderedred2
I guess this belongs here...
https://www.theguardian.com/news…
"The data analytics firm that worked with Donald Trump’s election team and the winning Brexit campaign harvested millions of Facebook profiles of US voters, in the tech giant’s biggest ever data breach, and used them to build a powerful software program to predict and influence choices at the ballot box.
A whistleblower has revealed to the Observer how Cambridge Analytica – a company owned by the hedge fund billionaire Robert Mercer, and headed at the time by Trump’s key adviser Steve Bannon – used personal information taken without authorisation in early 2014 to build a system that could profile individual US voters, in order to target them with personalised political advertisements."
- This is fascinating.R_Kercz
- yup!renderedred
- BTW I have "stumbled upon" Cambridge Analytica in other leaks too... Interesting venture.renderedred
- TBF, C.A. was broadly covered in the media a year or so ago, I'm not sure why it's being so heavily featured again in the headlines at the momentdetritus
- eg.
http://www.spectator…detritus - yeah, that's when i first read about them.renderedred
- hit the news again because this info wasn't part of the original story"
"harvested millions of Facebook profiles of US voters, in the tech giant’s biggest ever"fadein11 - data breach"fadein11